Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-01

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adiourns. Thirty.sscond ANNUAL INSET
ing Of the Right Worthy Gsand Lodge
Of Independent Order Good Tsmpisss.
Board Of Aldermen appropriate el5,-
OC0 to erect new school-houses.
26th. McGruder Burke discharged.
9th. Municipal election held, and
James @. Smith elected City Sergeant
over N. N. Lee; Rsformers' victory as
to City Council, &c. Change Of guags
on the Danville system.
30th. Hollywood memorial-dsy.
lst. Professor King, accompanied by
James f. Bradley, Of Manchester.
makes an ascension from the City. Hall
lot in the balloon "Esele Eyrie."
I'd. Rev. Sam. Small preached at
Centenary church.
7th. Julius Wildt, hair worker, com.
mitted suicide.
9th. Caleb Austin struck by train
and killed on tho Richmond and Allie
ghapy trestle, near the now pump
house.
10th. Cornerstone Of the Young
Mems Christian- Association building
laid. Death of DR.. X. w. Brodnax,
of Manchester.
lltb. Meeting Of the Grape and
Fruit Growers Association at the Ex-
change Hotel.
18th. Eighteenth annual session Of
the National Council Of United Ameri-
can Mechanics of the United States
held. Sudden death Of Captain Lcais
J. ..Pcsssenx. Belle-Isls hands strike.
= l7th. Richmond Knights Templsrs
visit Providence, r. /.
Goth. Lewis Kidd shot Thomas CAL
ligan in Manchester. James & Reads
warehouse partially burned.
29th. Split in Reform caucus.
July.
1st. Chesapeake and Ohio railway
went into the hands. by lease, OF the
Newport-News and Mississippi-V Valley
Company. Election Of city officers by
the Council.
ID. A great rainfall and much dam
age done.
4tb. Richmond club wins in the boat
race at Fredericksburg.
18th. New Board Of Health elected.
22d. Judge Bond grants Tracey K.
Wyles an injunction rs. William Ii.
Mullen at ais, restraining the publica-
tion of the black list.
25th. Stacy's shuck-factory and
warehouse in Manchester burned.
26th. q. c. Crutchfeld mashed to
death between cars at the Petersburg
depot.
9th. Annual session Of the Grand
Council American Legion of Honor.
! s0lh. Buck & Hofl's mills, Manches-
ter, burned.
August.
August lst. A mulatto girl named
Berta Wood and q colored man named
Thomas Jchrson arrested for shooting
Washington Walker in Manchester
W. i. Ratcliffe, Jr., drowned in the
river while bathing.
I'd. DR.. j. G. Lumpkin elected
member Of the Board of Health.
81. George Bannister shot by Jo-
seph Shepherd.
9th. Frederick Turner, general secre-
tary and treasurer of the Knights OF
Labor, visits the city.
18th. The second Diocesan Synods
opens at st. Peters Cathedral Hon.
George D. Wise addresses reformers'
political meeting.
24tb. Charles l.. Pulling drowned
near Mayo's island.
25th. W. A. Mattox thrown from a
buggy and suddenly killed.
3lst. A severe earthquake between
| / and II o'clock P. NJ.
september.
lst. Excavation begun for the new
City Hall.
I'd. George ID. Wise nominated by
the Democratic Convention for con-
| gresham. .se~tcol-
Sd. New ..JsS 5sSGiiHn,rSSfa ii Manchester /; slight
9th. Miss Winnie Davis (asrghter OF
President jeff. Davis visits Richmond.
10b. William II. Mullen nominated
by the Labor Convention for congress-
man. H.
18th. Silas Parker dies from ths
effects Of kick given him by ernest
Neslage.
merry in Manchester burned.
l4th. Baughman Brothers enter sun
rs. Richmond Typographical Union i0'
100000. -
10th. Important decision rendered
in the Supreme Court with relation te
county superintendents Of schools. :,
Goth. Judges Atkins, OF Richmond
and French, Of Manchester, charg'
) the grand juries with reference U
gamblers, lcttsry-ticket venders' boy
.. cotters, &C.
q 23d. New registration begins.
2Sth. Grand jury indic!s eight pei
: sons for boycotting; new regissra''o
closed. ii.
!. 3Otb. Cluverius refused a rehearin
/ bv the Supreme Court at Staunton'
October.
!. oa General Master W Workman 70?
r ' 4ib' Knights Of Labor General z
Il sembly convenes in Armory ~. =. =
es McGuire and Rev. DR.. no s !,
ct from Europe; resolution oiisrs. re-. - = 4,
Common Council concerning 'ns -
o. alton of Manchester. ,,....s
iltb. Governor Lee addresses .i,s sr !
nd c;tv Council regarding the site 'Vf !,
Ury Oroposed Lee monument; Jshn Jh,;. a; a
lip PrOpu''p prop. Post. % Grand Army Republic,
go fsstS Boston, here; Knights Of Labor
rsde. u o,octsd Gene,
Master Workman. -,
er- 18th. St. sophis's Home cnAl
MA 1i ooth. State Fair opens. :,
Ia oIst. President Cleyeiana va M
richmond and delivers an sddiess
on a, the Fair. Grounds. .;.
pal nc 18th. Suicide in Phiiadelpnis
Thomas Potentini, formerly q cisi
y" of Richmond. .;,,.a r,
Goth. W. r. Lee appoin'eo